Education: Rare Days at Wayne

"When I tell people I'm from Wayne State University," jokes one
professor, "they usually answer, 'Ah, yes. Fort Wayne, Indiana.' " The
error is unlikely to persist. Not only has Detroit's fast-growing Wayne
(21,260 students) become the nation's 16th-biggest university, but few
other state schools are getting better so fast. The secret is that
Detroit, auto maker to the nation, is in the midst of a cultural
revolution. And no one is hungrier for intellectual horsepower than
Wayne's students, the sons and daughters of the men who build the
autos.